My dad and I are both dealing with grief after my mom died but we grieve completely differently and every time we try to talk about her or make decisions about her things, we end up hurting each other. I retreat into myself and he wants to process everything out loud and neither of us knows how to bridge that gap without losing what we each need.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that their authentic ways of processing loss are mutually incompatible, creating secondary trauma in their shared healing.
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